"Madam please sign here these are the consent forms." Divya looked at the rude guy dressed in the ragged shirt and life jacket. His beard made him look bad however the way he talked about with people was what made her more disgusted.

"Okay" Divya took the papers and quickly filled them up. They were supposed to go river rafting today and were a bit late for that.

The group soon began tracking down a rocky road towards the river bank and once they were instructed they began falling into groups. Since there were a total of 8 girls everyone thought it would be better for all the girls to go together and to let the boys be in their own group. However, the instructor had some other plans as he said that it would be better if the girls and boys would be mixed up.

The moment Madhav heard this he yelled out for Divya and Nandini and asked them to come in their raft or boat whatever it was. Divya was so excited that she began pulling onto Nandini's hand as the latter yelled, "arey wait, my leg is stuck." Divya quickly apologized and helped Nandini out of the raft and then walked towards Madhav's raft.

"Thank God. " Madhav exclaimed almost dancing in his place with his paddle in his hand. "I was worried that someone else would come here." The three of them laughed as the other boys got in with Madhav and Manav at the head, with Rishi behind Madhav followed by Atharva and then Divya, on the other side behind Madhav there was Dev, Aman and then Nandini such that both Nadini and Divya were beside each other. All of them could easily look at each other as they brimmed brightly, scared to shit and excited at the same time. The instructor then explained the rules and asked Ms. Jain to join them.

Soon the river rafting began as they moved ahead Divya could feel herself relaxing and enjoying. Time and again when they would be asked to stop paddling Madhav would look back at her with ease and raise his eyebrows at her asking her how she was doing. Divya would then smile back at him and blink her eyes assuring him that she was for sure enjoying this.

"Does anyone wants to get down in the water?" Manav, Madhav, and Dev exclaimed a loud yes as Divya looked at Nandini who shook her head in a big no.

Though Divya was scared, she wanted to go ahead and take a dive. A few minutes later when Aman as well dived in overcoming all his fear for water Divya and Nandini jumped into the water. The water was cold in the beginning however with time they got used to it. After some time the instructor gave them all a rope each and asked them to go farther from the water while kicking their legs.

Divya realized how much she was enjoying herself laughing about and doing things that she had never done. Soon they all got into the water and rafted towards the shore. The moment they reached their Divya's attention went off to the far end and she called out for Madhav who as well called her at that very moment.

"Aloha!" the two exclaimed, making the group scared as Ms. Jain reprimanded them first as Madhav began telling her about the hotel, while Divya looked at him. The spark that Madhav had while he spoke about it, the way he bounced in his place in excitement, the way he had called out to her, all of it was so cute. She wished she could pull her cheeks and kiss them for how cute he looked at that time

Alas, she couldn't.

About an hour later the whole group had returned back to the room, as Divya realized that there was something wrong between Simran and Rohan who had decided to stay back as Simran wasn't feeling quite well. Divya was quite worried for her as even last night the two had been fighting over something while Nandini and she had gone to Ram jhoola. She only hoped that it wouldn't hurt the two of them.

About an hour later they all got ready and were taking out their bags to keep them in the lobby when Dev and Madhav walked up to them and stood right on the door of the lift.

"Nandu give me chocolate." Dev snapped at Nandini as Divya glared at him.

"Ohh hello why would she give you chocolate? And tell me this: why are you always after people's chocolate? An hour ago you took my Lollipop..."

"Wait, Natasha gave that to me." Dev clarified.

"That was because you took it first and then asked whose it was and when you got to know it was mine you took it," Divya whispered yelled,.

"But I gave that back to you." Dev smiled at her like that of Cheshire cat clearly enjoying the way Divya was getting irritated.

"Dev please let us go I am in no mood to fight with you"

"Then who asked you to? Just get out of the lift let us take it and I will end it here." Dev smiled at her as she narrowed her eyes at him while Nandini argued.

"Why should we do that? We came here first, we called the lift. Plus you guys don't even have your bags with you."

"Ohh our bags the bell boy is getting them," Aman answered.

"then why do you want the lift?" Natasha asked. It seemed she was quite pissed herself. "we want to go upstairs for lunch." Dev answered.

The girls looked at the boys and snapped together. "aren't you guys asses, getaway we need to go." Nandini even decided to get out but both Aman and Dev blocked her making the girls shocked and confused at the same time.

"What do you even want?" Natasha asked as she shifted her bag from the left hand to the right. Even Divya could feel her shoulders paining from the weight of her bag however the boys kept on smiling at them with Aman pulling onto Nandini's hair as Manav called out to them.

"Dev, Aman let's go."

What happened next could have actually got the boys killed if the girls wouldn't have been sleepy and carrying loads of their bags in their hands, Both Aman and Dev waved at them and got back from the door, and walked off towards the stairs.

"those assholesssss" the girls yelled as the lift closed and they went downstairs to keep their bags. By the time they had returned to the dining area most of the people were done with their lunch. Divya was about to get her plate when she received a call. She went to the side and answered it while Nandini plated her some food.

It was Just Aman, Divya, Nandini, Dev along with Madhav and Manav who were left to have their food. The girls joined them as Divya began cursing.

"My boss is such an asshole, that motherfucker I had informed the team that I won't be there till 11, yet at asswhip chutiya, bhenchod insaan had to intervene."

"what happened?" Aman and Natasha asked while Nandini giggled about. It seemed as if she enjoyed the times when Divya would go about cursing.

"It was my boss from my internship. I had told him that I won't be here hence I won't be taking any assignments and it's not like we have to take assignments no matter what because they know we won't be able to do it as we have to work about in teams and prepare plans, yet he has been irritating me since yesterday. Now that fucker had called me to ask if I could prepare a report on the idea that I had pitched to him." Divya exhaled and began tearing a piece of roti as Ms. Jain called everyone to speed up.

It seemed that she won't be able to have lunch as well. She was feeling sleepy and more than that it just occurred to her over the phone that this was it, this was the last day of the trip, tomorrow the whole day they would be on the train and then ... the next morning by now she would be home having lunch with her family.

This knowledge much to her surprise didn't sit well with her.

"So you are going to work on it now?" Natasha asked. She herself was playing around with food, and no matter how much she had issues with what she ate while traveling, Divya knew she would suck up everything. She wondered what was wrong with her.

" Do I look like some chutiya here to abide by that, I refused, I told him that I will have it ready the day I would get back as here the network isn't well and that we are constantly traveling around."

"Yaar Divya, Don't. Don't abuse, it doesn't sound good coming from you." Dev said as he spooned a morsel and put it in his mouth, his eyes avoiding Divya who had an incredulous look on her face.

She was about to retaliate to him when Manav butted in and clarified.

"What he means is that we have always seen you as this prim and proper person, like all sanskari and then all of a sudden having you abusing people left right north-south is not digestible. We will take time."

No matter how much Divya and the girls tried, but they couldn't help but laugh.

"Awww, Dev I am not at all sorry for that, because that is the best way I let out my frustration, and trust me if I am abusing in front of you then take it as I am quite comfortable around you... so suck it up." Divya explained and began eating. There was a silence for a few seconds when Madhav spoke.

"But Dev is right you know. I have heard many girls cursing around me, but every time that you curse it's quite different, it's like it makes us realize how wrong it is and at the same time how cool it looks on you." Madhav chuckled a bit to make sure that Divya won't really get offended about it, whereas Divya could feel herself getting awkward.

It was one thing to have her, herself talking about herself and then it's a completely different thing having people talking about her. She didn't know then what was she to do, smile? Say thank you? And then there were even her hands, what was she to do with them?

"Even though I agree, I mean all the time that I have seen you, you are always this quiet, soft-spoken, always smiling person. It will surely get some time for us to get used to your this side." Aman Remarked. Divya smiled at the group and decided to eat her food.

Once they were done, the troop went downstairs to get into the traveler, as expected there had been something wrong between Simran and Rohan as she asked Divya to sit with him, quite reluctant she shifted her seat and sat beside him. Divya fetched out a few wet tissues and began adjusting her makeup, she couldn't tell really well if she was doing a good job and hence asked Manav to exchange seats with her for a moment.

"I swear if it's because of your make up I will kill you," Manav warned.

"No it's not my makeup, please come here."

The moment she got settled and Nandini began helping her with her makeup everyone in the bus had their eyes on the girls. From the front of the traveler Natasha pointed out a few places where fixing was needed along with Simran, Nandini then pulled out the compact and patted on Divya's cheeks and nose, and once satisfied she nodded her head and gave her a thumbs up.

"Didn't you just do your make-up in your room?" Dev asked.

"It got ruined, my skin wasn't moisturized well, so I had taken it off and put on some moisturizer," Divya explained.

"So you didn't have makeup on all this time?" Manav questioned.

"I had a bit of it as I hadn't taken off the makeup completely but it was more of the moisturizer." Divya smiled as the two changed their seats again.

"And what about the other days?"

"Depends like the first day I didn't wear any makeup nor did I wear any yesterday I was too tired."

"It didn't look like, you girls look good with any makeup as well." Manav complemented as the other boys agreed. It was quite weird coming out from them, it was one thing till they were enquiring about the makeup for if they wouldn't have then it would have been weird, but then receiving a compliment from them was something else.

Once settled Divya realized how sleepy she was and decided it was better to go off to sleep. She plugged her earphones and played a soft song and went off to sleep.

It might have felt like about 15 minutes when she felt a poking in her shoulder, Divya shifted a bit inside and rested her head on the side of Rohan's head, and slept again. A few seconds later the poke came again, this time sharper,

Divya shifted once again whimpering however this time she pulled her blanket over herself and decided to go back to sleep. Yet this time once again someone poked her right on her shoulder bone, which woke her up as she sat straight and yelled.

"what the hell? Problem kya h" It was Sanket smiling at her as brightly as he said, "Dev wants the candies."

Divya looked at Dev quite pissed, beside him Madhav was still brooding for not having got to check his bag for his watch, Atharva was busy watching the drama unfold. Divya turned around, pulled out the candies from her bag, and gave them to the Sanket, she planned to go back to sleep however it seemed a farfetched idea. Her nap was ruined.

"We are here," Aman announced and for once Divya thought that they had to get off, but when she looked out they had just entered the gates of Haridwar. The whole city looked different from what she had imagined. There were walls and containers decorated with paintings, lots of shops that had articles that were used for pooja. Sadhus could be seen walking around the roads, as the river flowed beside the roads.

Haridwar wasn't anything like that of Hrishikesh, that city was beautiful with greenery all around, here in Haridwar there were people, there was a crowd there were vehicles and then there was as well this feeling, this slight ache within Divya as she realized that this was it, their final destination, and as time would come to an end here, she wouldn't know what was it to be done with her time ahead.